Challenges Faced by Preachers in Upholding Gospel Truths
In the journey of preaching the Gospel, preachers face challenges in addressing faith and exposing misguided teachings. The struggle to confront errors hidden in darkness and the importance of standing firm in truth are explored. Preachers are called to protect the flock and fight against falsehoods, despite the risks and opposition they may encounter. The necessity of clarity in presenting the Word of God and the danger of misconstruing faith for mere moral acceptance are highlighted.
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~ The Twenty ~ The Twenty- -Fifth ~ Evening Lecture Evening Lecture Fifth ~
Some preachers say, You gotta believe!! What s wrong with that? What should a preacher do instead? We do say that faith is required for salvation. What do we not say? 2
at the same time exposing, refuting, and rejecting teachings that are contrary to the Gospel. The minister who does this will discover by practical experience the truth of the old saying: Veritas odium parit (telling the truth makes enemies). Athanasius, Luther easy to keep silent, difficult to come out publicly and refute error! 3
it is located within the domain of the devil. Wherever a Church is seen to be, not ecclesia militans, but ecclesia quiescens, a Church at ease, that you may rely on it! is a false Church. Of what use, however, is a shepherd who leads the sheep to good pasture-grounds, but flees when he sees the wolf coming? 4
errors are the more harmful, the more they are concealed. It is therefore necessary that they be dragged into the light and fought. 5
In the tenth place, the Word of God is not rightly divided when faith is required as a condition of justification and salvation, as if a person were righteous in the sight of God and saved, not only by faith, but also on account of his faith, for the sake of his faith, and in view of his faith. 6
No. the proper sense must be connected with these words. 7
by faith in Jesus Christ they understand nothing else than the acceptance of the excellent moral teachings which Christ proclaimed. By accepting these moral teachings, they held, a person becomes a true disciple of the Lord and is made righteous and saved. 8
by faith they understand fides formata, faith that is joined with love. Accordingly, they manage to say many excellent things about faith; but by faith they always mean something different from what Scripture teaches. 9
Man is not saved by his own acts, but solely by the doing and dying of his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 10
it ceases to be a present when the donor stipulates one condition or another which the grantee must meet. 11
gratuitously [for free], without anything, even the least thing, being required of us. We honor Him as our faithful Savior by making His Gospel our refuge; but we deny Him if we come to Him offering Him something for what He gives us. 12
Suppose you say to a beggar who approaches you asking alms that you will give him something on one condition, and on his asking you what the condition is, you would tell him the condition is that he accept your gift. Would he not consider your condition a hoax? 13
It would be no gift if He were to attach a condition, just as little as it is a gift when I ask a tramp to work in my garden if he wants me to give him something to eat. 14
In view of faith. Turn and twist as much as they will, they declare that something which man does is the cause of his salvation. 15
He makes the promises of the Gospel conditioned promises like those of the Law and removes the distinction between the Law and the Gospel. In short, the promises of grace demand nothing of man. When the Lord says, Believe, He does not utter a demand, but issues an urgent invitation to man to take, to apprehend, to appropriate what He is giving. 16
Faith is merely a passive instrument, like a hand into which some one places a dollar. The donor is doing the essential part by putting the gift into the hand, not the other party, by holding out the hand. 17
The fact that it is God who prompts the holding out of the hand. 18
Faith is not an achievement of ours, but is wrought in us by God without our contributing anything towards that end. 19
that man is justified on account of his faith. Wherever the relation of faith to justification is spoken of, terms are used which declare faith a means, not a cause. 20
Because the hand is not called the condition, but the organ and instrument, for receiving alms. 21
